''Ixorheis'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of parasitic

alveolates The alveolates (meaning "pitted like a honeycomb") are a group of protists, considered a major clade and superphylum within Eukarya. They are currently grouped with the stramenopiles and Rhizaria among the protists with tubulocristate mitochond ...

in the phylum

Apicomplexa The Apicomplexa (also called Apicomplexia) are a large phylum of parasitic alveolates. Most of them possess a unique form of organelle that comprises a type of non-photosynthetic plastid called an apicoplast, and an apical complex structure. Th ...

Taxonomy

''Ixorheis'' is currently the only genus in the family Ixorheidae which in its turn is the sole member of the order

Ixorheorida ''Ixorheorida'' is an order within the subclass Conoidasida of the phylum Apicomplexia. All members of this order are parasitic protozoa. Taxonomy The order has one family — Ixorheidae. This family has one genus — '' Ixorheis'' — and ...

. There is only one currently recognised species in this genus - ''Ixorheis psychropotae''

History

The species was isolated from the digestive tract of the sea cucumber '' Psychropotes longicauda''.Massin C, Jangoux M & Sibuet M (1978) Description d' ''Ixoreis psychropotae'', ''nov''. ''gen''., ''nov''. ''sp''., coccidie parasite du tube digestif de l'holothure abyssale ''Psychropotes longicauda''. Protistologica 14, 253-259

Description

This species has been reported only once and little is known about it.

Gametogony Apicomplexans, a group of intracellular parasites, have life cycle stages that allow them to survive the wide variety of environments they are exposed to during their complex life cycle. Each stage in the life cycle of an apicomplexan organism i ...

is absent but both

merogony Apicomplexans, a group of intracellular parasites, have life cycle stages that allow them to survive the wide variety of environments they are exposed to during their complex life cycle. Each stage in the life cycle of an apicomplexan organism i ...

and

sporogony Apicomplexans, a group of intracellular parasites, have life cycle stages that allow them to survive the wide variety of environments they are exposed to during their complex life cycle. Each stage in the life cycle of an apicomplexan organism i ...

occur.

References

Apicomplexa genera {{Apicomplexa-stub